Easter

Easter this year was a lot of fun. All three boys were into it. We survived indoor egg hunting with only one broken lamp!! Aidan got a little excited trying to beat his brother to an egg behind the couch and knocked a lamp off the table. He offered to give me $10 to replace it! He's so cute. Lamp replaced and all is good (we did not take his money). Ready to hunt for some eggs outside!


Sam found one in his lawnmower!


Ben shared some that he found with his brothers!

Aidan and his basket - he is super keen but shares and helps his brothers find some eggs too!

We had company come for Easter dinner. Why cook a turkey unless you have a crowd to feed. So Jody and Theresa came with the 3 girls and we also had Chris' boss (who is posted away from his family at the moment) and another friend of Chris' from work who was here from Halifax and away from his family for Easter too all come for dinner.

Jody has 3 girls about the same ages and the boys and well, there was a wedding for Ben and Ariane. It was a lovely wedding. The bride wore a pretty pink dress with a beautiful veil. The groom sported a Nike shirt and a couple of cars instead of flowers. Jonelle was the officant, Aidan the best man, Claire was the maid of honor and Sam was along for the ride! The happy couple celebrated their wedding with a fine reception. There was turkey, killer potatoes, and vegetables. A wonderful angel food cake was enjoyed by all for dessert!

The happy couple!

The Wedding Party!

My Big News

I just had to share my big school news. I made the Deans Honor List this past semester. I will brag it up while I can because it will probably never happen again!!!

I Met This Man...

This is Leon Leyson.

Leon is an amazing person with an amazing life story. He is courageous, lucky, kind, strong, and just plain amazing. I had the privaledge of hearing him speak at our school on Thurs. Leon is a survivor of the Holocaust. He is one of the survivors on Schindler's List. He told us his amazing story of life as a Jew and what being on Schindler's List meant to him and his family. He spoke for a little over and hour and it did not seem that long. His story was so riveting. He did lose 2 of his older brothers and his grandparents during this time but his parents, a brother, a sister and himself survived. He came to the US in 1949 as a displaced person and ended up in LA. He married and had two children of his own. I think it's important to remember this time in our history. Now, in the words of Leon himself, "You are all witnesses of what happened to me and you can share that so others don't forget."

Ben & The Olympic Torch

Ben came home from daycare with this picture in his backback.

He didn't tell us about this special event at daycare. Apparently the director of the daycare new the woman who is in the white suit who ran with the torch and she agreed to bring it in to show the kids. When he was asked about it he was quite excited to tell us all about it. He said that it was pretty heave, but not too heavy for him! (Although it is almost as tall as he is!) He explained that when he was holding it he did a little jogging on the spot just like the runners with the torch did! We told him how special it is that he got to hold the torch and not many people get to touch it. Personally, I am a bit jealous. We are so proud of Ben!

Festival du Voyager

It was the first weekend of Festival du Voyager here in Winnipeg. Chris is away in Florida (rough life) until tonight. The kids were climbing the walls, I was going to get no studying done, the weather was beautiful - only -6C. So I bundled them all up and headed down to the Forks in the van. After finding a parking spot, we walked around and took in all the sights. I didn't bring skates because we all know what happened last time I went skating. Plus, Ben and Sam aren't strong skaters so it would be pretty hard to get them all going on the ice.

An ice castle. Ben was disappointed he couldn't go inside. He will have to go to Quebec City sometime when he is older.

Typical boys watching the train going by on the train bridge!

This street car is open and has benches in it for you to put your skates on. Winnipeg is proud to have the longest outdoor skating area in Canada.

I propped the camera up and took this picture of the 4 of us.

This is a sun sphere. It is constructed of aluminum pipes and then they places a fine mesh netting over it and sprayed it with water. So it essentially a frozen sphere suspended from a train bridge. There is a hole in the bottom and if you crawl up inside there is a bench made from rope for you to sit on.

The boys inside the sphere.

Nova Scotia Snow!

The weather here has been a lot like in Nova Scotia the past few days. It has been damp and when it snowed yesterday, it was snowman snow. The kids had a great time building this snowman, who Ben named "Oatmeal"! Then we had a snowball fight followed by tunnel digging. We all had a great time. Even the dog who ended up with snowballs in his fur. The extra kid in the pictures is Aidan's friend Nathan.

Santa

This is a bit late being posted but better late than never.

I didn't actually think I would get a picture of the 3 boys with Santa this year. Sam can be very shy. We went to see Santa at the mall again this year and we had Sam all phyched up to see the man in red. As we were in line I asked him if he was going to sit on Santa's knee and he didn't seem to keen. When the boys were called for their turn, I haven't seen Sam moves so quickly and try to push his brothers out of his way to make sure he got on Santa's knee.